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Stephen Donaldson
Stephen Donaldson
Mordant's NeedMordant's Need Newpbk 18 Jan 07
The Runes of the EarthThe Runes of the Earth
About the Author
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New British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Mordant's Need
The Mirror Of Her Dreams & A Man Rides Through
The land of Mordant: beset from without by armies and monsters and from within by plots, dissension and madness. Mordant is a land where mirrors are magical gateways to other worlds, places of beauty and terror. The Imagers are masters of mirrors; to them falls the task of finding a champion to save the land.
In Mordant’s hour of greatest need, two unlikely champions emerge: Geraden, whose inability to master the simplest skills of Imagery has made him a laughingstock, and Terisa Morgan, snatched from a Manhattan apartment by Geraden’s faulty magic. Together, Geraden and Terisa discover undreamed-of talents within themselves - but those talents also mark them for death.
When they find themselves unjustly branded as traitors, they are forced to flee for their lives. Now, all but defenceless in a war-torn countryside ravaged by the vilest horrors Imagery can spawn, Geraden and Terisa must put aside past failures and find the courage to embrace their powers.
Mordant’s Need: an omnibus edition of The Mirror of her Dreams and A Man Rides Through, a rich and finely textured novel by a master storyteller, a tale of love and lust, power and court politics, in a place where nothing is ever what it seems…
‘Reaffirms Stephen R. Donaldson’s position as the foremost practitioner of the epic fantasy form in the world today’ Science Fiction Chronicle
‘An impressive performance. Mr Donaldson’s style - shimmering and full of ambiguities and puns - resembles the curved mirrors of Mordant’ New York Times Book Review
‘A work of compelling power, with a large cast of vivid characters and a spare, witty prose style that is a revelation. A memorable tale from a major American fantasy writer’ ALA Booklist


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Paperback - Gollancz (2005)
First British Edition Gollancz (2004)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Runes of the Earth
The First Book of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The triumphant return to the Sunday Times bestselling fantasy series, a modern classic that has changerd the face of epic fantasy.
Since their publication more than twenty years ago, the first six books in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant have sold more than 10 million copies and have been published around the world. Now, with The Runes of the Earth, Stephen Donaldson returns to the Land, and the story of Thomas Covenant. Struck down with a deadly disease, abandoned by his wife and son, Covenant was drawn into the Land, where the earth itself brings healing, and welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour. Though he could not - would not - accept this magical world was real, the Land itself was under threat, and only Covenant had the power to save it - and the sacrifice of his life was the Land’s redemption as well as his own.
Now comes the book every fantasy reader has been awaiting. Ten years on, Dr Linden Avery had thought she would never see the Land, or Covenant, her beloved, again. But Lord Foul has stolen her adopted son, and there is more at risk than the life of the boy she adores: Lord Foul is unmaking the very laws of nature and if he is not stopped, he could destroy everything. And though Linden believes Covenant dead, he keeps sending her messages: ‘Find me’, and ‘You’re the only one who can do this’, and ‘Remember that I’m dead’. The Land is in turmoil, and Lord Foul has plans for them all ...

'Something entirely out of the ordinary' The Times
'Comparable with Tolkien at his best' Washington Post
‘Covenant is Donaldson’s genius’ Village Voice
‘Remarkable scope and sophistication’ Los Angeles Times
‘The most original fantasy since Lord of the Rings’ Time Out
‘A remarkable achievement which will certainly find a place on the small list of true classics’ Washington Post Book World


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About The Author
Stephen Donaldson spent thirteen years in India, where his father was a medical missionary and orthopaedic surgeon; the idea for Thomas Covenant grew out of his father’s work with lepers. The first trilogy, Lord Foul’s Bane, The Illearth War and The Power That Preserves, won Donaldson the British Fantasy and, John W. Campbell Awards. The second Covenant trilogy comprises The Wounded Land, The One Tree and White Gold Wielder; Donaldson is also the author of the Gap SF novels, the World Fantasy Awardwinning collection Reave the Just and Other Tales and a series of mystery novels. He lives with his family in New Mexico, where he is at work on the second novel of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
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N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Mordant's Need (Gollancz Pbk, 2007) New Pbk Jan 07
  • The Runes of the Earth (Gollancz, 2004) Gollancz Pbk Oct 05


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